Engineering Design Competition.
African Problems
African Minds
S2PAfrica invites teams of undergraduate students in the last two years of study or recent 2021 graduates to design localized solutions addressing African challenges for the chance to win a $10000 grand prize.
All participants must be registered in either the Faculty of Engineering or Science of a West African university and have lived in Africa for the last 4 years.
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Awards
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Expert Judges
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Judging Categories
Harness ignored energy
Clever usage of ignored energy potentials surrounding us
Keep the lights on
Devices that are optimized for intermittent availability of electric power
Localization
Adaptation of globally available technology to local use cases
Integrated solutions
Devices that efficiently combine power production and storage
Autodesk
Expert usage of the Autodesk computer aided engineering and design toolkit
High efficiency devices
Devices that are more energy efficient than existing products on the market
Competition Sponsors
Our awesome sponsors are helping us make EDC 2022 a success by funding the competition categories and providing aspirational prizes.
Thank you!
Big thanks to all our attendees, competitors, judges, corporate and individual sponsors for making the first S2P Engineering Design Competition a success.
Huge congratulations to our 10 finalists and to team Koye Hydro who emerged ahead of over 40 teams as the Winner of the S2PAfrica EDC 2022, taking home $10,000 IDRC grand prize and $2000 from Cummins West Africa, to fund the development of their project as well as teams KeyTrick and Improved Charcoal Stove came in second and third respectively.
A new bar has been set and we can’t wait for EDC 2023.
EDC Articles
Read the sample proposals for different judging categories. Participants are free to use or adapt the ideas presented.
